Adobe 65021048 User Guide - Page 72

ADOBE PREMIERE PRO CS3 66 User Guide Tips for logging clips interactively • Set options on the Logging pane of the Capture panel. Adobe Premiere Pro uses the current data in the Setup and Clip Data sections as defaults for subsequent logged clips. If you want to log a series of clips into the same bin with similar logging data, save work by specifying clip data before you start logging the series. When you click the Log Clip button, a dialog box appears so that you can accept or change the clip data. • In the Clip Data section, specify a tape name. Adobe Premiere Pro asks for this name every time you begin batch capturing. • The Clip Name in the Clip Data section progresses in numerical increments automatically. For example, if you want to number a series of clips with clip names starting with Car Chase, enter Car Chase 01, making sure that the clip name ends with the number. Subsequent logged clips default to the next number, such as Car Chase 02. • You can change Capture panel settings at any time. For example, if you see the action changing as the tape plays back, you can get ready to capture the new upcoming action by selecting a different bin to log subsequent clips into or by typing a different name for Description or Scene. You don't have to stop the tape as you change settings. • You can operate the device and log clips using the keyboard. See the tool tips for Capture panel controls, or choose Edit > Keyboard Customization to view or change the shortcuts. • You must click Log Clip to create a new offline file. This pauses the tape as you confirm the clip data for the new offline file. About batch-capture settings A batch list of logged clips appears as a list of offline files in the Project panel. If you plan to capture many clips, you may want to create bins in the Project panel in advance so that you can log each set of offline clips directly into its own bin. When you batch capture, the offline files are replaced by captured clips, maintaining the bin organization you set up in advance. You can capture audio and video to separate drives, if this is supported by the format codec. (This is not supported by the native DV and HDV capture in Adobe Premiere Pro.) Set the locations for new files by choosing Edit > Preferences > Scratch Disks (Windows) or Premiere Pro > Preferences > Scratch Disks (Mac OS). If you don't change the defaults, all files captured or created by Adobe Premiere Pro are stored in the same folder in which it stores the project files. By default, the settings that Adobe Premiere Pro uses to batch capture offline files are the project's current capture settings. If an offline file has its own capture settings, Adobe Premiere Pro uses those settings when capturing it; the resulting clip maintains its capture settings so that it can easily be recaptured using the same settings. For example, if a clip's settings specify capture at a frame size of 720 x 480 in a project with a frame size of 320 x 240, Adobe Premiere Pro captures the clip at 720 x 480 unless you change its default. You can override a clip's capture settings by choosing the Override Capture Settings option in the Batch Capture dialog box. Specify capture settings You can assign capture settings to an offline file that are different from the project's, for example, to capture the clip at a resolution higher than the project's. • To determine whether the offline file already has its own capture settings, look in the Capture Settings column in the Project panel. Scroll right to see this column. If an offline file has its own capture settings, its box in this column has a check mark. If the column is hidden, choose Edit Columns from the Project panel menu; then select Capture Settings. Click OK. April 1, 2008